Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 23

• He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stay Strong, Mold, World

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• The eternal female draws us onward.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Female, Draws, Eternal

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• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Errors

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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• In art, the best is good enough.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Good Enough, Enough

  'Italienische Reise' (1816-17) 3 March 1787

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• Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Book, Wondrous

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• There is no patriotic art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Patriotic

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• He who moves not forward, goes backward.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Moving, Growth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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• How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna SWANWICK (1843). “Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller, Translated, with Introductory Remarks, by Anna Swanwick”, p.2

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• It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Self, Rate

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• It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Said

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• We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Believe, Atheism

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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• Experience is only half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Half

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• Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

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  Men, Majority, Persuasion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.52

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• No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

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  Long, Acting, Conscious

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• Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Three Things, Execution

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1873). “Novels and Tales”, p.57

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• Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Struggle, Salvation

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• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Political, Promise, Liberty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Energy, Done

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• Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peculiar, Form

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Hermann und Dorothea, Canto V, line 69, 1922.

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• The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, Individual, Century

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

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• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Accomplishment, Lips

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• A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosopher, Scholar, Great Philosophers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

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• The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

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  Nature, Law, Rose

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• To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

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  Art, Mean, Crafts

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• Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Power, Vices

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